Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 2 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 3 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 4 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 5 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 6 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 7 | But this does not mean you not ever go out . |
| 8 | He could not leave her here even had he the courage to go up into that vast nothingness above … |
| 9 | Their respective economic stopping points may not leave them exactly equally matched . |
| 10 | I can not urge you strongly enough to resist the temptation of trying to work with such tapes . |
| 11 | do n't throw it about though do you ? |
| 12 | And erm there used to be shops where they would , they 'd sort of say , we can give you pills to bring it on , but I , I do n't think they ever really did . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think she ever quite got over it . |
| 14 | She readily admits that she did so deliberately : ‘ I do n't think I ever really believed he would stay with me unless we had a child . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I do n't think I ever really knew that . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's terribly sad but I do n't think I ever really loved her , either . |
| 17 | But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me . |
| 18 | and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire |
| 19 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 21 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 22 | Malik mispunched Malcolm over mid-on , and Lamb 's little legs could n't carry him fast enough to get underneath the chance . |
| 23 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 24 | " Fiver , I wo n't pretend that I did n't follow you up here to speak angrily . |
| 25 | Well we do n't see him much now do we ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't denigrate her now just to please me . ’ |
| 27 | and you do n't hear it much here do you ? |
| 28 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 29 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 30 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |